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We are thrilled to announce that the pilot GIAB/NIST Reference Material 8398, Human DNA for Whole-Genome Variant Assessment (Daughter of Utah/European Ancestry) is released! This is genomic DNA from a large batch of the same cell line as NA12878. It is available for sale from the NIST Standard Reference Material website at http://tinyurl.com/giabpilot.

At the steering committee meeting, we decided that it would be useful for others in addition to Marc and me to present about GIAB at conferences since we cannot go to every conference. To facilitate this, we are making a general abstract and slide deck available for anyone to use, as well as a schedule of upcoming conferences to which anyone can add. If you're interested in submitting an abstract and/or presenting about GIAB at a conference, you can add it to the spreadsheet schedule of conferences and send me an email.

We have scheduled a call about strategy for writing papers at 2pm EDT on Friday October 3. The call-in number will be (559) 726-1300; Passcode 135879#. To start the discussion, I've created short outlines of several papers that I've either discussed with others or started to write. We will discuss whether and how to combine these and other ideas, and how to prioritize them:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Ao1qqJJDHQUmJUa0lTd0RCM3M/edit?usp=sh...

The firstdata from the Personal Genome Project (PGP) trios that we plan tomake into NIST Reference Materials is now on the GIABftp site. CompleteGenomics has sequenced both the Ashkenazim and Asian trios from the PGP anduploaded the data to:

Thank you to all of you participated in our GIABworkshopAugust 14-15. Itwas great to have discussions with many of you. Below is a summary of talksand discussions from the workshop. Most of the slides are available on